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AAAS. Handbook on intellectual property and TEK: http://shr.aaas.org/tek/handbook/
Alaska Native Knowledge Network: http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/publications/handbook/integrating.html
American Indian IKS Internet Resource Index: http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAknowledge.html
Columbia University CIESIN Agriculture IKS: http://www.ciesin.org/TG/AG/iksys.html
Development Gateway: http://topics.developmentgateway.org/indigenous?goo=1744
Indigenous Environmental Network: http://www.ienearth.org/
Indigenous Knowledge Listserv: http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Listserv/Indigenous_Knowledge_13238.html
Indigenous Knowledge Management Software: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2003/papers/hunter/hunter.html
Indigenous Knowledge Resources: Americas: http://www.ik-pages.net/browsetree.asp?item_id=002.004.%26allarticles=true
Indigenous People’s Biodiversity Network: Declaration on Biodiversity: http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/rio/focus/report/english/ipbn.htm
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism: http://www.ipcb.org/http://www.ipcb.org/publications/other_art/bsinabs.html
Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network: http://www.ser.org/iprn/default.asp
Infography: Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Systems: http://www.infography.com/content/620138698080.html
Joint ICSU & UNESCO version of Study Group Report: http://www.icsu.org/Gestion/img/ICSU_DOC_DOWNLOAD/65_DD_FILE_Vol4.pdf
Khipu Database Project: http://khipukamayuq.fas.harvard.edu/Researchers.html
Native Eyes Indigenous Studies: http://www.iaia.edu/nep2/index.php
Native Tech Internet Resource: http://www.nativetech.org/
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Science and Development Network – Indigenous Knowledge: http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierfulltext%26Dossier=7
Science and Development Network – Intellectual Property: http://www.scidev.net/dossiers/index.cfm?fuseaction=dossierItem%26Dossier=8
Seventh Generation Fund: http://www.7genfund.org/index.html
UNESCO: 1999 Budapest Declaration: http://www.unesco.org/science/wcs/eng/declaration_e.htm
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UNESCO: Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: http://portal.unesco.org/sc_nat/ev.php?URL_ID=1945%26URL_DO=DO_TOPIC%26URL_SECTION=201
UNESCO: Science-Agenda Framework for Action: http://www.unesco.org/science/wcs/eng/framework.htm
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Whitt, L., Chambers, D.W. (2014). Knowledge Systems of Indigenous America. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_9418-2
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